Example sentences of "[conj] of [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) The consent of the Secretary of State may be given in respect of a particular disposal of property or of disposals of any class or description and may be given subject to such conditions as the Secretary of State may determine . |
| 2 | However , the crisis is not simply a product of specific policy failures , or of weariness with ten years of Mitterrand . |
| 3 | In the event of a second conviction for a like offence , a member is liable , in addition to the penalties already named , to be adjudged to be for ever incapable of holding any public office , and to be incapable for five years of being registered as an elector or voting at an election either of members to serve in Parliament or of members of any public body . |
| 4 | No significant difference was found between the rates of metabolism of butyrate or of glutamine by ileal biopsy specimens taken from UC patients compared with controls , and the ratios of butyrate/glutamine metabolism did not differ between UC patients and controls ( Figs 7 , 8 , and 9 ) . |
| 5 | relates to specific matters relating or of concern ( directly or indirectly ) to that company , that is to say , is not of a general nature relating or of concern to that company ; and |
| 6 | ‘ Unpublished price sensitive information ’ is information which relates to specific matters relating to or of concern ( directly or indirectly ) to that company , that is to say it is not of a general nature relating to or of concern to that company and is not generally known to those persons who are accustomed or would be likely to deal in those securities but which if it were generally known to them would be likely to affect the price of those securities . |
| 7 | A wrongful possession of land for twelve years , or of goods for six years , destroys not only the former owner 's right to recover the land or goods by action , but also his title ; and so the possessor has the best of titles known to the law — a possession which no one can dispute . |
| 8 | The purpose of all this cross-referencing and analogizing is not to gain knowledge of the text ( or of art in general ) but to function , as Bourdieu suggests , ‘ to bring the work into an interminable circuit of inter-legitimation ’ . |
| 9 | Wittgenstein 's criticism of solipsism , or of foundationalism with stronger knees , was that the solipsist can not , despite his pretensions , develop a language . |
| 10 | ‘ You may be sure , ’ said Jared Tunstall , ‘ that if ever I do go bankrupt I should certainly die of grief , or of mortification at such a turn . |
| 11 | In the publishing world as a whole , periodicals concerned with the family become more and more specialized : quite apart from the dozens of magazines addressed to women generally , we find some catering for the interests of parents in particular , some especially for the ‘ mother to-be ’ , and others for parents of individual age-groups or of children with special characteristics or handicaps . |
| 12 | The first exemption , which is most pertinent to takeovers , is contained in s103(3) , which provides that a valuer 's report is not required where the allotment is made in connection with an arrangement providing for the allotment of shares in the company on terms that the whole or part of the consideration for the shares allotted is to be provided by the transfer to that company ( or the cancellation ) of all or some of the shares , or of all or some of the shares of a particular class , in another company ( with or without the issue to that company of shares , or of shares of any particular class , in that other company ) . |
| 13 | If the argument mentioned in relation to s89 is correct in respect of that section then it should be equally applicable to s131(1). ( 3 ) Section 103(3) provides that s103(1) ( requiring a valuation in respect of shares allotted by a public company for a non-cash consideration ) does not apply to " … the allotment of shares by a company in connection with an arrangement providing for the allotment of shares in that company on terms that the whole or part of the consideration for the shares allotted is to be provided by the transfer to that company ( or the cancellation ) of all or some of the shares , or of all or some of the shares of a particular class , in another company ( with or without the issue to that company of shares , or of shares of any particular class , in that other company ) " . |
| 14 | The greater likelihood of their being admitted to an institution in Ipswich may well reflect a greater availability of beds or of places in residential accommodation , as well as a different attitude towards home care on the part of the psychogeriatrician ( researchers ' fieldnotes indicated that he was more preoccupied by the notion of patients being ‘ at risk ’ in the community than was the case with the Newham psychogeriatrician ) . |
| 15 | The Act is an enabling one and does not affect the existing system unless the leadership of the churches wish to co-operate in a reshaping of the system or of schools in any particular area . |
| 16 | There 's your four That 's your quadrilaterals , except of course for this one . |
| 17 | If , for each country , is constant over time it follows that will be a constant , although of course for different countries it will be a different constant . |
| 18 | Thus , under capitalism , women 's oppression is not simply a question of individual men oppressing individual women , nor of men in general oppressing women in general ; it takes the form of exploitation in the labour market , which has become essential to maintaining capitalism — low wages , harsh working conditions , little job security — as well as exploitation in the home and family . |
| 19 | Where care is provided , it is far more often in the form of advice than of assistance with physical care . |
| 20 | It is a matter of scale ; of working with like-minded , self-employed farmers and craftsmen rather than of subservience to faceless officials and giant firms . |
| 21 | In Buxtehude , as we have seen , there has been a sharp rise in bicycle use , though this is likely to be a result of the greatly increased opportunities for cycling ( and walking ) rather than of transfer from other modes . |
| 22 | Further , part of the reduction in horizontal segregation has been a consequence of the entry of men into traditional areas of women 's employment , rather than of women into those higher-paying sectors traditionally monopolized by men . |
| 23 | But the legislative changes of the 1880s and afterwards were to have effects probably quite different from those that reformers such as Butler intended , and much more in the direction of increased control rather than of assertion of individual choice . |
| 24 | What is or is not " in the neighbourhood " of the premises must be a question of degree and of circumstances in each case . |
| 25 | He was accused of illegal possession of firearms and of embezzlement of public funds . |
| 26 | The upshot of President Bush 's efforts to exercise this influence is a cut in 1990 of 68% in Guatemala 's military aid and of 23% in economic aid . |
| 27 | Yet if one accepts that a number of very accomplished poets remained firmly off the routes of mainstream development , it must be accepted that the history of women 's poetry , and of poetry in general through the eighteenth century , has been interpreted in a simplistic manner . |
| 28 | There has been a substantial increase in coverage of the Chamber and of committees in regional broadcasting ; some regions , BBC and ITV , have generated good week-end reviews which give more time to back-bench MPs . |
| 29 | His paradoxical logic is in many respects similar to the non-binary logical structures developed in France in the late 1960s to account for the peculiarities of literature and of narrative in particular ( see section 3.2 above ) . |
| 30 | The danger in this new drive that is a feature of many advanced industrial societies lies not only in raising unrealistic expectations from these areas of study but also in denigrating the contribution of the social sciences to economic growth and in neglecting the non-economic functions of education which are just as important to the well-being of individuals and of society at large . |